The Pipettes

they supported the Go! Team on their recent jaunt around the country, and made me smile and laff a lot when i caught their show in bristol.

very twee and innocent sounding power pop anthems with girl power infused lyrics ..

Good fun live though.

I'm sorry, I just don't get it.

It's a genre that I adore, a band I should love, but I've seen them a couple of times and they just leave me cold.

It just seems so very... studied. I don't know. It's a genre that should be about FUN!!! and sugar and humor and girly spontenaity. But there's just something so... not right about them. Perhaps it's my own prejudices at seeing a bunch of girls doing dance moves in front a bunch of male backing musicians rather than "doing it for themselves". But the overall impression is somehow the fun, the giggles, the girliness - what makes me LOVE this kind of music - has been sucked out of it, and it's just this limp ironic joke by a bunch of people who are doing it cause they think it's "cool" rather than through any genuine kind of love of the music.

Anyway... sorry. I wanted so badly to like them.

i love the new single! transgressive records rule.

Never mind, forget I even said anything. I give up.

And, well, Miss AMP to thread for a much more insightful, incisive and more FUN deconstruction of said Pipettes...

(Oh wait, see the above thread, it doesn't actually matter what the music sounds like, it will all be judged based on looks alone, sigh.)

(Is that the difference, that I'm basing my impressions on live performances rather than recorded output?)

Why shouldn't they be? Looks & image are clearly important to the band, and their onstage persona (and some of the songs too) gives me the impression that they know they're attractive & are taking advantage of the situation.

Even so, I love 'em. The two 45s are both fantastic, & live they're so much fun. Looking forward to hearing The Long Blondes sometime too.

Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.

I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but whatever it is that I love about girlgroup music - the fun, the fizz, the joy - it's lacking from them.

lets see if all this build up pays off once we actually get to hear some records ..

Oh wait, see the above thread, it doesn't actually matter what the music sounds like, it will all be judged based on looks alone, sigh.

Oh, come on I wasn't being entirely serious, I never implied that looks are all that mattered. Although I think in THIS PARTICULAR CASE looks are somewhat important. You've admitted, MISinformation that "the fun, the giggles, the girliness" is part of what you love about this music. What's wrong with adding "looks" to the mix. Plus I have to say I wasn't just refering physical beauty. In fact, its the outfits and the attitude what I like the most.

> Because the same considerations don't even get a look-in when males are discussing male bands.

i think they do, it's just that Ian McCulloch, say, or Jim Reid, or Kurt* or whoever are 'Cool' rather than 'Attractive'.

*Ralske obviously 8)

they played in london tonight and of course i didnt find out until it was too late. gah.

does anyone when the album is supposed to come out?

If you wanna talk about eye candy though, you should have seen the first openers, the Gypsy Queens (?) who were doing a sort of spoof Girls Aloud / Sugababes style thing. Maybe they were deadly serious? All I know is that the men in the crowd were really gawking at the undulating bodies of these scantily clad ladies.

Anyway, back to the Pipettes... If they are so popular, and their latest single is in the top 50 singles this week, how can they still have copies of their 2nd 7" (ltd to 1000 copies) still available for £3 at their shows? Is everybody just downloading them?

go to yahoo and sign in with the name the_pipettes and password abc123

St. Etienne to thread!

Also, "Dirty Mind" is very awesome.

lol remember "the pipettes"?

Perhaps I was thinking of the "Stop the Music" single, but I vaguely remember they put out another song on their myspace with the lineup in-between the album group and the current one. Either way, I wasn't really enthused. I'll keep an ear out for this.

lol remember "the pipettes"?

pretty sure this thread indicates some people do, yes.

still waiting for rose's solo album, but 'find me out' is really great.

My brother started this thread

they never did end up putting out anything on 5:15

new album is kinda awful and yet i'm enjoying it quite a lot

not as good as rose's solo lp

Gwenno's album is fantastic. I think it's been re-released already, but I'm not sure. It's out on Heavenly--was out on Peski, a Welsh label, originally. You must check it out. I am not a Pipettes fan, but I think it's one of the best albums I've heard in ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CldPv3-VHmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleVny7jz7Q

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/Gwenno-YDyddOlafBonusDiscEdition-HeavenlyRecordings-104291.html

Out on the 24th. It's getting all kind of great reviews now that it's being re-released. Get on it.

ya I cosign
this is wonderful

yeah this album is really good

How was that last Pipettes album she did with her sister? There's got to be something good about it.

http://thequietus.com/articles/18396-tongue-of-the-dragon-a-look-at-welsh-language-outsider-pop

Aug Stone talks to Gwenno & Dr. Sarah Hill, and Rhys Mwyn, to give an introduction to some Cymric musical pioneers

Ooh, Y Dydd Olaf is wonderful, though I'm not sure if people after this kind of Broadcast/Bachelorette-esque vibe would click on a Pipettes thread ... fits in nicely with this year's Susanne Sundfør album, in a way. Has anyone encountered the novel it's based upon?

yeah i almost feel like it deserves its own thread, because i have zero interest in the pipettes but this gwenno record is wonderful.

I agree.

Picked this up today, it's great.

I really liked the first Pipettes album but never took to the second one.

Those tracks up there didn't enthuse me, but I guess I'm always hoping for a return to their first album sound.

The Gwenno record is on my to-do list but just checking y'all have heard Rosay's solo album from 2010 yeah?

Yeah, Without Why is a great record. Keep hoping that she'll bring out a follow up.

I wasn't really into the Gwenno album the first time I played it but I find myself going back to it a lot. The production is just gorgeous.

As for The Pipettes, I still love that debut. The second album was a massive disappointment, especially after Stop The Music was such a brilliant lead single.

Rosa's album is very good, yes, though I was a little taken aback that it came out that long ago!

May give the second Pipettes another go.

Poor Riot Becki.

Well this Gwenno album is a lot better than I could have ever expected. Most of it sounds like the midpoint between Broadcast's "Tears In The Typing Pool" and Saint Etienne's "Avenue" with a Krautrock influence.

Just listened to that Gwenno record for the first time. Nice. I like that description

I don't know how I'm just discovering Gwenno solo. I think I dismissed the first youtube above on first listen and stop paying attention... but man, she's got a handful of excellent songs!

Interesting to see how both Rose and Gwenno have independently released material that is very obviously Broadcast-influenced, yet nothing the Pipettes ever did sounded even remotely like Broadcast.

Rose's new album is available now! It's delightful

Yeah, Rose's new album is fantastic. Without Why was crazy underrated. This one might be even better.

I too have been impressed with 'Stellular'!

Rose's album is amazing

this is also nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhBuvVCHC9w

Cool, that's the best song on the album.

I read something recently where she said Broadcast are her favourite band. That makes a lot of sense going on her solo work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCeygWexyA

New Gwenno on Friday.

Looking forward to this. The single is gorgeous.

I've got the album. It's good; a fair bit slower than her first. I can't hear much of a difference between sung Cornish and Welsh, to be honest with you. Sensing a nice grower.

yeah we just heard a song off this and it's sounding very promising

Man, Gwenno's Le Kov is great. I'm not sure I like it as much as the last one, but it's growing on me the more I return to it!

Rose's third solo album came out on Friday. That's three great albums in a row. Shame she doesn't get the attention she deserves.

i liked "stellular" a lot, i'll have to check this new one

It's a bit more mellow and stripped back that Stellular but equally as gorgeous.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

Last album was brilliant yeah; fantastic production too.

Solo Rose is more Broadcasty, right?

― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee)

The first two albums were quite Broadcasty yeah. She's named them as her favourite band before.

haha my housemate's in a band with riotbecki. see thru hands. manchester based.

I feel like somehow it would make perfect sense to reform the Pipettes in some capacity given how Gwenno and Rose have each made excellent records on their own that sound surprisingly similar considering how different they are sound from the original Pipettes material.

I most admit though that I find Rose's records a bit anachronistic. Like the would sound great in the turn it the century, not so much now.

*turn OF the century

Combining modular synth, saxophone, and a medieval lute, Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall create an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-waeve-the-waeve/

This album is very good. Bit Talk Talk-y at times, kind of a languid Soul feel to others.